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Brian Selznick: Destined to be a children’s book illustrator When Brian Selznick enrolled in art school, the one thing he knew for sure was that he didn’t want to illustrate children’s books.
Hopes and dreams Marcus believes that every generation makes books that contain the hopes and dreams it wants to pass onto the next generation.
Kellogg reads Jack and the Beanstalk Steven Kellogg reads Jack and the Beanstalk, one of the many fairy tales and tall tales he has retold and illustrated.
A first autobiography The Innkeeper’s Apprentice (1979), Allen Say’s first and only long-form book, tells his own life story and inspired his picture book autobiography, Drawing from Memory (2011).
Creating new images Christopher Myers doesn’t like the way that black people are portrayed in the media.
